Infrastructure Manager

Job summary

The Infrastructure Manager is responsible for the lifecycle management of the UKHSA’s Infrastructure service of ~2500 cores, ~10 PTB of storage, fabric, backup service, and physical Edge Data Centres. This is a hands on technical (~60%) and managerial (~40%) role, working as both lead engineer and department manager ensuring service availability, functionality, performance and security alignment to organisational priorities.

This role reports to the Head of Network and Infrastructure and operates under a hybrid working model based at one of, and requiring regular travel to, Porton, Colindale and Chilton, as well as other corporate sites, corporate events, and industry events as required.

Working for your organisation

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Job description

Managing a team to ensure delivery of

• Lifecycle management of Infrastructure (hypervisor, hosts, and fabric)
• Lifecycle management of multi-vendor hybrid storage (on prem & cloud)
• Lifecycle management of Backup & Restore Service

Leadership & Management

• Lead and develop a specialist team

You will be accountable for lifecycle management, performance, availability and security of all technologies making up the Infrastructure service as listed above, using the specific OEM’s in the Essential and Desirable role criteria listed below. You will lead delivery of new releases and capabilities into service. You will manage a multi-discipline engineering team accordingly.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Lifecycle Management of VMWare
• Lifecycle Management of Veeam
• Lifecycle Management of Fibre Channel Network or iSCSI
• Availability, Functionality, Performance & Security thereof
• Managing technical teams, or evidence of transferable skills

Desirable criteria:

• Storage
• SAN
• Hybrid cloud extension

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,185, UK Health Security Agency contributes £16,276 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

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You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed (5) essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application)
• 1,000 word supporting statement.

This should outline how you consider your skills, experience and knowledge provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V –please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible). Please do not email us your CV.

Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your supporting statement must be no more than 1,000 words. We will not consider any words over 1,000 words.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

1. Meets all essential criteria
2. Meets some essential criteria
3. Meets no essential criteria

If used, the pile(s) ‘Meets all essential criteria’ will proceed to shortlisting.

Shortlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we may conduct an initial sift, on the lead criteria of:

• Lifecycle Management of VMWare

Desirable criteria may be used in the event of a large number of applications/large amount of successful candidates.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to the next stage which is a technical assessment.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2 - Technical Assessment

You will be sent a technical assessment which will be assessing the following:

• Lifecycle Management of VMWare
• Lifecycle Management of Veeam
• Lifecycle Management of Fibre Channel Network or iSCSI
• Availability, Functionality, Performance & Security thereof

Full details will be provided at this stage.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to the next stage which is an interview,

Stage 3: Interview

You will be invited to a single remote interview.

Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills will be tested at interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Managing a Quality Service - Lead behaviour
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

Interview dates are to be confirmed.

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Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your